Introduction
This practical training program is designed with:
- 16 hours training
- 03 months one-on-one coaching and doing projects
How you will benefit
- Articulate a detailed vision for the future of the family, the enterprise, and for your own aspiring leadership role
- Learn to communicate your vision and imbue it with the significance and purpose needed to engage your family and your employees
- Assess your leadership style using feedback from those you currently collaborate with and create a personal action plan with one-on-one coaching
- Understand the fundamental importance of emotional intelligence for successfully leading in senior roles
- Learn innovative ways to lead by articulating your personal philosophy of leadership and weaving it to the culture of the family enterprise and its long-term strategy
- Learn to manage the unique dilemmas that confront family enterprise leaders in ways that harness the strategic advantages of these organizations
- Learn to manage generational transitions and to collaborate effectively with your seniors, your juniors and your generational peers
- Discover how best to constructively influence the many stakeholders of a family enterprise
- Discuss the special challenges and skills needed to earn trust and authority as a leader of a family enterprise
- Master working effectively with the board of directors, the shareholders, the management and the family
Who should attend
Families in Business: From Generation to Generation is intended for teams of business family members, such as:
- A chief executive officer [or top family business leader(s)] and his or her spouse
- Children of the business leader(s) and their spouses
- Siblings and their spouses/partners
- Cousins and their spouses/partners
These family members might be:
- A manager or an employee
- A board member
- A shareholder
- An interested relative, who may be an in-law
What you will cover
Module 1: Understanding Leadership in Family Enterprises
- Learn to understand leadership as a collaborative function that can be performed by a constellation of leaders occupying family, shareholder and management roles
- Learn how to balance innovation with the traditions of the family enterprise so as to establish a tradition of change
- Explore how to sustain an entrepreneurial edge in your family enterprise
- Find out how leaders of a family enterprise can improve decision-making skills
- Learn to manage other relatives who are your seniors, peers and subordinates in the business
- Explore how to lead generational transitions effectively and in ways that respect the needs of both the enterprise and the family
Module 2: Leading Shareholders and the Board of Directors
- Tap into shareholder needs and provide them with coherent direction
- Learn how to lead an effective family company board
Module 3: Understanding Your Personal Leadership Style and Vision
- Articulate your own dream and learn to translate it into a leadership story that your followers can follow
- Learn how to develop yourself as an authentic and effective leader
- Explore how to connect your dream with the needs and aspirations of all stakeholders and weave a compelling vision for the family enterprise
- Learn how to translate a dream into a viable business strategy
Module 4: Balancing Work and Family
- Develop effective coping strategies to invigorate and sustain your leadership
- Learn to establish meaningful priorities for your personal and professional life
Module 5: Transitioning Back to the Family Enterprise
- Develop your own leadership action plan for the next 100 days in the office
- Explore the viability of your plan with your peers
- Set an implementation plan that considers the ownership, the family and the enterprise
- Learn how best to translate the ideas from the program to the unique circumstances of your family enterprise